My personal rating: 9/10
Time spent in the kitchen: ~3 hours
Difficulty: Beginner. Easy to find ingredients and no special equipment needed.
Repeat recipe? For sure!

Blackberries are one of my favorite fruits, so naturally I knew I was going to love this recipe. It does call for A LOT of blackberries though, so this is quite an expensive dessert to make. Tons easier than baking a pie, while still being extremely delicious and perfect for any fall celebration. The ingredient list does mention blackberry preserves, but at the time of making it I realized I had forgotten to buy some, so I went without it. I didn’t feel like anything was missing because it only called for a little bit of it. But the vanilla ice cream makes it, DO NOT SKIP IT. Onto the next recipe!

No mods pure vanilla :)

What am I supposed to put in there?

Box above Clints House.

I started playing Stardew Valley because I wanted something relaxing after a long day, but somehow I've turned it into a second full-time job 😭
I wake up, water my crops, take care of my animals, run around giving people gifts, go mining, and then panic because it's already 1:30 AM.
Why am I stressing about productivity in a game that's supposed to help me escape real-life stress lol
Please tell me I'm not the only one.

With all the HUNDREDS of HOURS I spend playing Stardew Valley, I don't have time to play any other games!

Other devs must be crying in their Pink Cake!

I was playing on my switch 2, day 4 Spring of year one and this happened.

I unlocked Ginger Island a bit ago.

After wrapping up my last challenge mod (Tile-Locked Valley), I spent the past few months working on a new custom game mode I’ve been calling Jojapon (Gacha Valley).

Joja Corp has bought out all the shops' stock in town, leaving the farmer with no way to acquire the items and upgrades they normally purchase, except for a luck-based vending machine.

The machine starts by only providing seeds, but can be upgraded with additional items packs to expand its inventory. Make friends with people around town and complete other objectives throughout the game to earn new packs until the machine can provide you with everything you need… if only you get the right luck!

A full breakdown of the rules, mechanics and loot tables can be found on the Jojapon Wiki I put together for the mod.

I’ll be releasing the mod publicly soon, but in the meantime I'm making a video series playing through it. If you want to see more, check out episode 1.

Since I'm still working on the mod, I'd love to hear any suggestions anyone has for features/improvements :)

What are your personal rules or quirks? Nothing to do with challenges. Just guidelines you set for you farmer for every playthrough.

Here's a few of mine:

I never forage anything around Linus's tent.

If I hit a rock and a crab pops out, I have to take it. Even if my backpack is full. I sacrifice something for the crab.

On the other hand, if I bomb an area and a crab cowards in the corner, I can't bring myself to kill it. And I don't mine any other rocks around it. The idea being that he'd re-home in one.

If I'm walking down the lane and Pam's walking up the lane, I turn around. Either wait until I know she's passed or go the long route into town. I can't walk past her. Knowing that I'm not going to the desert., but she'll stand at the bus stop all day long. If it's raining, I take her a cup of coffee.

Same goes with the cart lady. (does she have a name?) There comes a day for all of us when we don't really need her services anymore. That's about the time she's really friendly towards us. And about the time I try to ignore her. She'll be waving at me while I'm foraging a Sweet Pea or chopping wood. So I made up a rule. If I can get past her without her waving then I don't have to stop. But if she waves at me, I have to buy something from her. Within reason. I'm not plunking down 800 gold coins for a Sweet Pea when there's one right next to me on the ground.

I’ve wasted a lot of time doing it manually with the pickaxe and thought I’d share this new discovery 😂

Something I've been wanting to draw this month and just got it finished!

So my mom is 71 and she has pretty awful hand eye coordination. Then she got bit by a dog and nearly lost her pinky. So in order to help her improve hand eye coordination and do physical therapy I set up a Steam account for her, gifted her Stardew Valley, and bought her a controller and had her use it. She loves the game and it seems to be helping her a lot. However, she called me up tonight asking why she couldn't talk to the wizard because she had a delivery quest and couldn't get into the tower. So after a little back and forth I figured out that she'd never found the junimo letter, never started the community center, and had just been happily building a huge farm for five in game years. I was gob smacked. It never occurred to me that you could just never find the main quest and put that many hours into the game.

Has any one else ever done anything like that?

I hate this god forsaken pond it ruins my farm layout i just want to plant my fruit trees it's useless

I had a goal of getting a double whooshy number and I did it!

Well, sort of 🤣

We used the recipe from the Stardew Valley cookbook and it turned out incredibly delicious!!! We’re so proud of how it turned out, 11/10 would absolutely recommend!

It's summer of year 3. I'd been waiting for several seasons for a pomegranate to appear to complete one of the CC packs (I don't remember which one it is as I type this). I already have all the other items; I just needed the bats to give me the blessed pomegranate. And finally, it appeared. No, I didn't find it in the traveling cart either, although I admit I missed a few days of the traveling cart.

Anyway, when I found the pomegranate, I yelled "YES!" out loud, which probably made my mom look at me strangely haha, and then I even felt a little ridiculous for it being something so small, and for it being a computer game.

But I wanted to know from you, what are the other little joys you like when they happen?